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Thomas Burke, a lawyer representing the WeChat users, told NPR he is grateful the order was temporarily stopped. In the suit, lawyers pointed to the president's numerous anti-China statements made before he issued the order against WeChat, including Trump's use of the phrase 'the China virus,' and 'Kung-Flu' to describe the coronavirus. President Donald Trump issued executive orders late Thursday night that would ban WeChat and TikTok, the short-form video app owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, from operating in the United States. WeChat has 19 million daily active users in the United States, according to market. WeChat users that was established to challenge Trump's order. Even if the ban only affects WeChat in the United States, that would still be a big blow to a lot of Americans. WeChat Users Alliance, a nonprofit representing the interests of U.S. 'WeChat is effectively the only means of communication for many in the community, not only because China bans other apps, but also because Chinese speakers with limited English proficiency have no options other than WeChat,' Beeler wrote in her order, comparing WeChat to 'a virtual public square for the Chinese-speaking and Chinese-American community.' Users on WeChat also use the app to purchase flights, read the news and transfer money. It is communications and social media platform, and for some the primary way of staying in touch with family in China. While TikTok is primarily used for creating and sharing short, goofy videos among mostly teens and 20-somethings, WeChat is like several different apps combined into one. user data, with a major investment from Walmart. WeChat is the way they stay in touch with family back in China.

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The reprieve for WeChat comes a day after TikTok, an app owned by ByteDance, a company based in China, was rescued in a last-minute deal approved by Trump in which software company Oracle will serve as a custodian of U.S. Wong said the ban will be a headache, but he’s more worried about how it will affect his parents. users addresses those concerns,' the judge wrote. 'Certainly the government's overarching national-security interest is significant,' Beeler wrote, but the Trump administration 'has put in scant evidence that its effective ban of WeChat for all U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in Northern California issued a preliminary injunction Sunday morning siding with users of WeChat, who claimed in a lawsuit that Trump's action curbed their First Amendment rights. on midnight Sunday following Trump's order invoking a national emergency and targeting the app on national security grounds.īut U.S. WeChat, used by 1.2 billion users worldwide and 19 million people in the U.S., was set to stop operating in the U.S.

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